"I decline to accept the end of man ... I refuse to accept this. I
believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is
immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible
voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and
sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write
about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting
his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride
and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his
past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man; it can be
one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail."
- Excerpt from Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature acceptance speech on Dec. 10, 1950.
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